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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ipissimus" data-source="post: 4118469" data-attributes="member: 41514">15' square seems pretty realistic. Of course, this is a fantasy game, more in tune with The Mines of Moria than real life dungeons and catacombs. I liked 3E scaling back to 5' squares from 10', which reined in some of the excesses of 1E and 2E dungeons (10' wide corridors everywhere? So much for cramped confines).However, I think the key to designing encounter areas won't always be picking one plain room and going with it. Alot of the challenge in large rooms will be window dressing: Pillars, statues, traps... actually, the idea of playing in a Medusa's garden actually has me excited about the tactical possibilities. On the other side of the coin, I think alot of encounters will need to take place in a collection of rooms in order to give the PCs the needed variety while still maintaining the tactical challenge of close quarters combat.</blockquote>